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or it is if you believe everything that you hear out of washington. today again president obama rang the alarm bells on the four spending cuts that are set to take effect seven days from now. >> i've been very clear that these kinds of arbitrary automatic cuts would have an adverse impact on families, on teachers, on parents who are reliant on head start programs, on our military readiness, on mental health services on medical search. >> you heard a bit of it there, especially from democrats you're hearing we'll have trouble fighting wildfires, airplanes, security lines will be long, all sorts of things. how much of that is true? how much of it is politics? how do we react to that? "outfront," daniel altman, economics professor at nyu, it political columnist for "newsweek" and "the daily beast." you listened to all this talk about all these dire implications, is it real or is it scare tactics? >> some of it is definitely real. if you look at the figures we're looking at maybe 70,000 kids getting kicked out of head start programs. we're looking at a $1
or it is if you believe everything that you hear out of washington. today again president obama rang the alarm bells on the four spending cuts that are set to take effect seven days from now. >> i've been very clear that these kinds of arbitrary automatic cuts would have an adverse impact on families, on teachers, on parents who are reliant on head start programs, on our military readiness, on mental health services on medical search. >> you heard a bit of it there, especially from...
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she was the 15-year-old honor student, the drum majorette who performed in washington. hadiya was killed a week later on a playground about a mile north of president obama's home. hadiya's parents, cleo cowley pendleton and nathaniel pendleton are joining us here. first of all, our condolences to you and your family. we see your strength over the last couple of weeks. we saw ayou as guests of the president, in part of the state of the union address. and we see you with the visit with the president himself in chicago. you hear about this death of miss macfarlane, how do you make sense of this, what do you do? how did you react? >> i was deeply saddened. we've been out and talking about the various news media about how awful this feels. definitely, my heart went out to the family. i actually gave her money a call yesterday morning. >> you can tell me about that call, what you were able to say to her, what you were able to convey at this time? >> no, it was really just extending my condolences and letting her now, you know, whatever -- however she needs to deal with for pa
she was the 15-year-old honor student, the drum majorette who performed in washington. hadiya was killed a week later on a playground about a mile north of president obama's home. hadiya's parents, cleo cowley pendleton and nathaniel pendleton are joining us here. first of all, our condolences to you and your family. we see your strength over the last couple of weeks. we saw ayou as guests of the president, in part of the state of the union address. and we see you with the visit with the...
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. >> sandra endoin washington. no doubt we'll hear more in the coming days. >>> 37 minutes past the hour. the stories trending on cnn this morning. rob morrison will appear in a connecticut courtroom today to face domestic violence charges. morrison, an anchor at wcbs tv, arrested early sunday morning in darrian, connecticut, after choking his wife ashley morrison. he made verbal threats against his wife while being processed. >>> burger king not having it their way. traces of horse meat found in european beef supplier and now the company's twitter page has been hacked. someone substituted the golden arches and made it seem like burger king was bought out by its rival. >> i know this is terrible, but i laughed. it was hysterical how they did this. >>> michael jackson's son prince has become a guest correspondent on "entertainment tonight." interviewing the stars of the upcoming film "oz: the great and powerful." >>> chaos inside a laundo mat. one customer caught on camera unloading on two others. that story, coming
. >> sandra endoin washington. no doubt we'll hear more in the coming days. >>> 37 minutes past the hour. the stories trending on cnn this morning. rob morrison will appear in a connecticut courtroom today to face domestic violence charges. morrison, an anchor at wcbs tv, arrested early sunday morning in darrian, connecticut, after choking his wife ashley morrison. he made verbal threats against his wife while being processed. >>> burger king not having it their way....
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. >> steve, you hear a lot of politicians in washington saying, well, the health care law is going to take care of that, it's going to control costs and we're going to finally see that. >> obama care does nothing to control costs. what obama care does is shifts sort of the burden of who pays for insurance. if anything, it's going to cost more because you're putting more of these people into the market because they're going to have insurance, but it's going to raise insurance rates and then the government is going to subsidize insurance for people who can't afford it, but obama care does nothing to take a $13,000 cancer wonder drug which in europe would sell for $2,000, it does nothing about that. >> steven brill is a "time" contributor. this is an absolutely stunning article, a must read for anybody who has ever visited even the emergency room for tripping and falling and bumping their head. thank you for talking with us about it. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >>> still ahead on "starting point" the war on childhood obesity, is it easing up? there's a new federal report o
. >> steve, you hear a lot of politicians in washington saying, well, the health care law is going to take care of that, it's going to control costs and we're going to finally see that. >> obama care does nothing to control costs. what obama care does is shifts sort of the burden of who pays for insurance. if anything, it's going to cost more because you're putting more of these people into the market because they're going to have insurance, but it's going to raise insurance rates...
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thanks very much into here in washington, president obama is doing an end around the national press today. he's taking questions from local tv stations, blaming congress for doing nothing to avoid these forced spending cuts scheduled to take effect in just nine days. so what kind of cuts is the president willing to take? jim acosta confronted the white house press secretary today with that question. jim is joining us now. how did it go? >> reporter: wolf, here we go again. the white house and congress move one day closer to the massive forced spending cuts that go into effect at the end of next week. and even though they both agree it's a problem, they are both busy blaming each other to fix it. the white house sounding the alarm. poor children will be tossed out of classrooms, health services will be slashed, border security will be compromised and the economy will take a hit if forced budgets cuts begin to happen on march 1st and the obama administration says republicans will be to blame. >> the pleas that the republicans are making are throw these people out of work. it's just -- it ma
thanks very much into here in washington, president obama is doing an end around the national press today. he's taking questions from local tv stations, blaming congress for doing nothing to avoid these forced spending cuts scheduled to take effect in just nine days. so what kind of cuts is the president willing to take? jim acosta confronted the white house press secretary today with that question. jim is joining us now. how did it go? >> reporter: wolf, here we go again. the white house...
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so there are different things that washington can do and, again, it's a nonideological piece. both republicans and democrats are at fault in not monitoring this process and not allowing the pharmaceutical companies and the hospitals to really be too much on their own. >> correct me if i'm wrong, this is the first time "time" magazine has ever devoted this entire section to one writer, one story, 20,000 words to a single subject. is that right? >> yes, that is right. but i thought the story was so important and steve did such a fine job. this can change the situation. >> thank for doing it, rick stengel of "time" magazine. >> thank you, wolf. >>> wait until you see what top hospital administrations are paid millions and millions of dollars while health care is crippling companies. don't miss part two of the "time" magazine special. that will air tonight at 8:00 p p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> russian's ban on adoptions by american families have left thousands of kids waiting for a family. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, stay
so there are different things that washington can do and, again, it's a nonideological piece. both republicans and democrats are at fault in not monitoring this process and not allowing the pharmaceutical companies and the hospitals to really be too much on their own. >> correct me if i'm wrong, this is the first time "time" magazine has ever devoted this entire section to one writer, one story, 20,000 words to a single subject. is that right? >> yes, that is right. but i...
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and president obama, today he's calling for raising taxes. before we talk about raising taxes on hard-working americans, we need to address the wasteful spending that we continue to see within the federal government. this year alone, we spent $2.2 billion on free cell phones in 2013. and the list goes on and on. and yet the democrats are not recognizing we have a spending problem or the impact of out of control spending on our economy. >> i know republicans and i saw a statement from speaker boehner today, saying that raising taxes is not on the table. the revenue question has -- the revenue debate has been closed. so can you say with 100% certainty that republicans will not go along with any tax increases, even on the wealthiest americans, even on big corporations? >> we need to address the spending side of this equation. that's where the republicans believe that we can find the common ground. the sequester, these across the board cuts, drastic cuts, disproportionately impacting the military and our defense, they were president obama's idea
and president obama, today he's calling for raising taxes. before we talk about raising taxes on hard-working americans, we need to address the wasteful spending that we continue to see within the federal government. this year alone, we spent $2.2 billion on free cell phones in 2013. and the list goes on and on. and yet the democrats are not recognizing we have a spending problem or the impact of out of control spending on our economy. >> i know republicans and i saw a statement from...